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 We need YOUR HELP to improve uade. Your suggestions, problems and questions
 have made and will make uade better. Ironically problems have often been
 fruitful to us. For some problems and questions we already have an answer
 for you in this file. Otherwise, please email us - we like to hear from our
 users.

Q: Where do I get more music?
A: look at the ends of the uade-docs/formats text. There are several links
   there, where you can provide yourself with a lot of Amiga music.


Q: What amiga formats does uade play, yet?
A: already a few:) Have a look into the uade-docs/formats text. There's a list
   of formats uade is already successfully able to play.


Q: Why is <insert your favourite amiga music format> not supported?
A: Hmmh, most likely the existing replayer does not (yet) work with uade.
   But maybe it will when developing goes on.


Q: I have a bunch of Amiga custom tunes that won't play.
A: Send us the file and we'll take a look at it. These kind of problems are
   sometimes very fruitful. It has happened to us many times that we fix
   uade for 1 song and as a result we get few more formats working with our
   infrastructure.


Q: In console I try to play a Customtune with following command line:
   uade -P players/CustomMade -M CUST.Title and uade crashes.
   Even the -force switch doesn't help.
A: CustomMade is a replayer for Ron Klaren(RK)/Ronklaren(RKB) soundfiles.
   Custom music files  are treated more like replayers by uade. They can be
   directly played with the -P and no -M switch: uade -P Customtune
   Alternatively you can also just pass the Customtune without the -P switch
   and uade will figure out what kind of file it is.


Q: Help! Uade compiles without problems but "make test" or the console uade/
   pwrap.pl doesn't work on GNU/Linux or FreeBSD.
A: There could be two possible reasons for it:
   #1 you are using one of the sound daemons of Gnome/Enlightment (ESD/ESound))
      or KDE2 (ARTS)
      use instead of "uade" the follwing... 
      for ESD:  "esddsp uade [parameters]"
      for ARTS: "artsdsp uade [parameters]"

         E.g. esddsp uade -P CUST.awesome

   #2 It could also be that you are using the alsa sound drivers,
      while uade uses OSS by default. Compile/Configure your alsa with the OSS
      compatibility layer and the console uade and pwrap.pl should work fine.


Q: Does the uade xmms plugin play mod files?
A: Depends on what the term "mod" is referred to. Playing Sound-, Noise- and
   Protracker mods and several packed formats should work alright. S3Ms, XMs,
   ITs are not supported, and probl never will. Uade is meant to play Amiga
   music formats, while s3ms and so on originate from the pc, so a
   native player for these formats like xmp should be preferred.


Q: But the xmms plugin does not play any mod files, they get played by
   the mikmod/modplug input plugin....
A: Unfortunately :) both mikmod and modplug are before uade in the list of
   input plugins, so you have to disable mikmod to get uade to play mod files.
   If you use modplug, you might get around disabling the plugin at all.
   Amiga files normally come with a prefix, like mod.knullakuk while pc formats
   have a suffix, like "catchthatgoblin.s3m", so if you rename your protracker
   mods back to the amiga standard, protracker mod files get played by uade
   all others will get played by modplug.
   The problem does not apply for the xmp (another very good modplayer for
   xmms, btw), because it comes after uade in the list of input plugins.


Q: Some of my TFMX (mdat.*) files are played all wrong, or not played at all
   with the xmms plugin, while they work fine with the console uade.
A: Try enabling Compatibility-> "detect some files by contents..." in the 
   configuration dialog of the xmms plugin of uade.
   The plugin will try to recognize the contents of the file and hopefully
   choose the right replayer.


Q: One or two of the turrican 2 subsongs are played at the wrong speed in the
   xmms plugin, while playing them in console with the -sub switch works.
A: We believe it's a bug in uade. It will hopefully be fixed.


Q: Can I use the 14bit (insert your favourite noteplayer genie) noteplayer
   from my Amiga with uade?
A: No. The noteplayer genies are not supported.


Q: On my platform uade compiles but "make test"  does not produce any sound.
A: Not all is lost maybe. If there's an output plugin for xmms for your
   platform, there's a chance you might use it as an xmms input plugin.


Q: Will you port uade to <insert your favourite platform here>?
A: quote from the website -> Ports to other operating systems /processors
   will be hopefully implemented in the future <-
   If you think you can contribute or even want to port uade to your platform
   please feel free to contact us.


Q: Is there a more convenient way to use uade from the console?
A: Yes, when you run configure it will report a bin path. In there you will find
   a script which will help you accomplish this. It is called pwrap.pl, pwrap
   being a bit more powerful then the spartanic uade console tool but requires
   perl to be installed.
   Pwrap.pl also has the ability to browse the Aminet archive via FTP and
   download the music from there to play it directly.

Q: I don't like to use XMMS. Isn't there another X Interface for uade?
A: Yes, there is. pwrap.pl also comes with a nice TK interface for x11.

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Q: I don't like to use XMMS. Isn't there a plain console player or another
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A: Yes, there is, both. Try the "spartanic" uade console tool, or pwrap.pl a
   perl wrapper that has a nice console user interface and also a TK
   interface for X11. Pwrap.pl also has the ability to browser the Aminet
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   perl wrapper that has a nice console user interface and also an x
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   Customtunes are treated more like replayers by uade. They can be played
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A: Depends on what you refer the term "mod" to. Playing Sound-, Noise- and
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